10 PRINCIPLES OF DISABILITY JUSTICE by Sins Invalid text to the right
#StaceyTaughtUs Syllabus: Work by Stacey Park Milbern
INTERSECTIONALITY “We do not live single issue lives” –Audre Lorde. Ableism, coupled with white supremacy, supported by capitalism, underscored by heteropatriarchy, has rendered the vast majority of the world “invalid.”
LEADERSHIP OF THOSE MOST IMPACTED “We are led by those who most know these systems.” –Aurora Levins MoralesANTI-CAPITALIST POLITIC In an economy that sees land and humans as components of profit, we are anti-capitalist by the nature of having non-conforming body/minds.COMMITMENT TO CROSS-MOVEMENT ORGANIZING Shifting how social justice movements understand disability and contextualize ableism, disability justice lends itself to politics of alliance.RECOGNIZING WHOLENESS People have inherent worth outside of commodity relations and capitalist notions of productivity. Each person is full of history and life experience.SUSTAINABILITY We pace ourselves, individually and collectively, to be sustained long term. Our embodied experiences guide us toward ongoing justice and liberation.COMMITMENT TO CROSS-DISABILITY SOLIDARITY We honor the insights and participation of all of our community members, knowing that isolation undermines collective liberation.INTERDEPENDENCE We meet each others’ needs as we build toward liberation, knowing that state solutions inevitably extend into further control over lives.COLLECTIVE ACCESS As brown, black and queer-bodied disabled people we bring flexibility and creative nuance that go beyond able-bodied/minded normativity, to be in community with each other.COLLECTIVE LIBERATION No body or mind can be left behind – only moving together can we accomplish the revolution we require.
Listen to this wonderful interview with Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha on Movement Memoes with Kelly Hayes
Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha’s The Future Is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes and Mourning Songs
Year of the Tiger: An Activist Life by Alice Wong
Year of the Tiger: An Activist Life by Alice Wong
Disability Visibilty collections (one for young adults) edited by Alice Wong
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Workers are being forced out due to high rates of disability, many frontline workers die, and OSHA regulations are kept from being actually useful.
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In this brief thread, Justin Feldman points out that only 59 workplace violations have been registered by federal OSHA and gives some background about the other OSHA standards and potential practices (March 21, 2022).
https://twitter.com/wsbgnl/status/1597397440084471808?s=20&t=9mYEaCMhYDuMxeWmdMVtFQ
Why Is the Pandemic Death Toll among Workers Still a Mystery? | The Walrus
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The US created a global vaccine apartheid
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